Real-time data ingestion (CDC) from SAP to Snowflake
Unlock your SAP data for faster time to insight and value
Today’s digital environment demands instant access to information for real-time decision-making, improved business agility, amazing customer service, and competitive advantage. Every person in your business, no matter what their role, requires easy access to the most accurate data set to make informed decisions – especially when it comes to SAP.
Industries like Manufacturing, Retail, CPG, Oil and Gas, and many others rely on actionable data from SAP to make strategic decisions and maintain competitive advantage
• Reduce time to insight with increased speed and agility
• More self-service analytics
• Use SAP data anywhere
• Utilize 3rd party software tools most
suited for the job at hand
• Combine SAP + non-SAP data
• Real-time, predictive (AI/ML)
• Facilitate scale with better cost control
• Reduce SAP Analytics TCO
So why doesn’t every company embrace the opportunity to use new analytic platforms — by streaming live SAP data for real time analytics or combining it with other data sources in data lake and data warehouse platforms in the cloud?
SAP systems come with a number of unique challenges that are inherent to the platform. They are challenging to integrate because they are structurally complex with tens of thousands of tables that have intricate relationships as well as proprietary data formats making data inaccessible outside of SAP applications.
This complexity means that integrating data for analytics can be cumbersome, time consuming and costly.
SAP datasets are full of value, but they won’t do your organization any good unless you can easily use them in a cost-effective, secure way
Realize the value of all your SAP data with Qlik® and Snowflake
Qlik helps you efficiently capture large volumes of changed data from your source SAP systems, as well as other enterprise data sources, and deliver analytics ready data in real-time to Snowflake. Data sets are then easily cataloged, provisioned, and secured for all your analytic initiatives such as AI, machine learning, data science, BI
and operational reporting.
Qlik and Snowflake remove the business and technical challenges of complexity, time and cost, while gaining flexibility and agility for your SAP data. This unlocks your SAP data for different analytics use cases, and allows you to combine it with other enterprise data for even deeper insights and increased value.
SOLUTION USE CASE
Data Warehousing
Quickly load a new SAP data into the Snowflake Data Cloud in real-time gaining new and valuable insights.
Data Lake
Easily ingest or migrate SAP data into the Snowflake Data Cloud to support a variety of workloads unifying and securing all your organizations data in one place.
Data Science & AI/ML
Speed up workflows and transform SAP data into ML-powered insights using your language of choice with Snowflake.
The Snowflake platform provides a simple and elastic alternative for SAP customers that simultaneously ensures an organization’s critical information is protected. Snowflake was built from scratch to run in the cloud and frees companies from cloud provider lock-in.
Architectural Simplicity
Snowflake improves the ease of use of SAP with greater architectural simplicity. Snowflake can ingest data from SAP operations systems (both on-premises and cloud), third-party systems, and signal data – whether its in structured or semi-structured formats. This provides a foundation for customers to build 360-degree views of customers, products, and the supply chain enabling trusted business content to be accessible to all users.
Convenient Workload Elasticity
Snowflake’s multi-cluster shared data architecture separates compute from storage, enabling customers to elastically scale, up and down, automatically or on the fly. Users can apply dedicated compute clusters to each workload in near-unlimited quantities for virtually unlimited concurrency without contention. Once
a workload is completed, compute is dialed back down in seconds so customers don’t have to deal with the frustrations of throttling SAP BW queries.
Reliable Data Security
With Snowflake, simplicity also means data security. All data is always encrypted—in storage or in transit—as a built-in feature of the platform. Data is landed
once and views are shared out. This means one copy, one security model, and hundreds of elastic compute clusters with monitors on each one of them.
Breaking the barriers to modernizing SAP data analytics
Ingest and deliver SAP data to Snowflake in real time.
Qlik accelerates the availability of SAP data to Snowflake in real-time with its scalable change data capture technology. Qlik Data Integration supports all core SAP and industry modules, including ECC, BW, CRM, GTS, and MDG, and continuously delivers incremental data updates with metadata to Snowflake in real time.
Automate the data warehouse lifecycle and pipeline.
Once your SAP data has landed in the Snowflake Data Cloud, Qlik automates the data pipeline without the hand coding associated with ETL approaches. You can efficiently model, refine and automate data warehouse or lake lifecycles to increase agility and productivity.
SAP Solution Accelerators
Qlik also provides a variety of Business Solutions such as Order to Cash. Unique SAP accelerators with preconfigured integrations and process flows leverage Qlik’s deep technical mastery of SAP structures and complexities. They enable real-time ingestion (CDC) and rapid integration of SAP data into Snowflake. The automated mapping and data model generation eliminate the need for expensive, highly technical and risky manual mapping and migration processes.
Discover bolder business insights.
Use business analytics tools such as Qlik Sense or any other BI tool to explore the data, create interactive dashboards, and carry out a variety of BI use cases for data-driven insights.
Real-time data ingestion (CDC) from SAP to Snowflake
Automated mapping and data model generation for analytics (data marts)
Prepackaged solution accelerators for common business use cases (order-to-cash, financials,
inventory management)
Decode SAP proprietary source structures (pool/cluster tables, HANA/CDS views)
Supports all core and industry-specific SAP modules
World-class SAP expertise to support presales and customer success
Qlik is a Snowflake Elite partner with Snowflake Ready validated Solutions for Data Integration and Analytics. We accelerate time-to-insight with our end-to-end data integration and analytics solution taking you from your unrealized data value in your SAP landscape to informed action in your Snowflake Data Cloud. Qlik’s solution for Snowflake users automates the design, implementation and updates of data models while minimizing the manual, error-prone design processes of data modeling, ETL coding and scripting. As a result, you can accelerate
analytics projects, achieve greater agility and reduce risk – all while fully realizing the instant elasticity and cost advantages of Snowflake’s Data Cloud.
Next Steps
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